"We put our best foot forward in responding to Amazon’s RFP for its HQ2 location and are proud of the proposal we made. As we said from the beginning of this process, whether or not we are selected by Amazon, we will reap significant benefits from the unprecedented regional effort.

Economic development agencies and partners throughout the 16 county Charlotte USA region demonstrated an exceptional level of cooperation, collaboration and teamwork during the process.

As always, we continue to move forward on a number of recruitment projects across our region and expect growing economic success in 2018."